Wisdom – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Add then subtract

Add then subtract.

For knowledge, add.

For wisdom, subtract.

Only from chronic adding does habitual subtracting become wise.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

You have everything you need

Kuwait Towers skyline — Kuwait City from my hotel room.

You have everything you need.

As you prepare for next month’s speaking engagements, remember who you are, where you came from, and what you learned, did, and taught.

You are more than ready.

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The biggest opportunities

twitter post about Russia invading Ukraine — February 28, 2022. From LinkedIn. Profoundly simple. Simply profound.

The biggest opportunities:

Gleaning any personal blindspots (for any of us)
Growing from this unique, public-ridicule experience
Remaining compassionate and spreading love not hate
Final confirmation on who’s trustworthy

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Thumbs up

Disney diaper changing station — Outsiders will never think like insiders. Only Disney is going to over-focus on the same things others under-focus on or ignore. Four rolls of toilet paper at the diaper changing station? Absolutely.

Thumbs up.

That’s what i present when someone cuts me off or nearly causes an accident. That and a prayer for the driver.

Used to offer the center finger. And no prayer. Ever.

Becoming a dad, and a Disney Institute teacher required a higher standard from someone who is preaching the highest standards.

Same on the local streets.

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

Dear son, this would have been impossible for me in my 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.

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How forgiving?

Disney Institute Keynote speaker Jeff Noel — Oct 27, 2014…..4 days before retiring from 30 years at Disney.

How forgiving are you?

You can master forgiving others after you first master forgiving yourself.

There is no short-cut.

Self forgiveness should, and must, happen first.

This life-insight is self-evident, and irrefutable.

Remember how long it took me to answer you, “Will you forgive me?”

A nanosecond.

You asked. You received.

Then you were asked, “Can you forgive yourself?”

Our tension, our pain, our confusion…we must forgive ourselves for each being a full 50% of the problem (challenge).

Remember what i told you last night?

The house and everything in it means nothing without you in it.

Mom excluded, who’s my favorite person in the entire world?

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